Career
Among his clients were Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, David Frost and Stephen Fry. Producer John Lloyd described him as "the most powerful agent in the country at that time ". Armitage"s father was songwriter and music publisher Noel Gay, (born Reginald Moxon Armitage), and in the late 1950s Richard set up Noel Gay Artists in order to ensure a supply of performers for his father"s compositions.
In the 1960s, NGA"s clients included Russian Conway, Peter & Gordon, The Scaffold, Geoff Love, Paul Jones, David Frost, and John Cleese.
In the 1970s The King"s Singers, The Swingle Singers, Tony Macaulay, Jake Thackray and Claude François were on the company"s books Armitage died in 1986.
